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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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The DataStage Balanced Optimizer does not support range lookups in lookup stage

Jobs that contain lookup stages that contain a range lookup, when optimized do not have SQL generated that enforces the lookup range. Response from IBM Support case (TS001477845) is to open RFE as DataStage is working as intended.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Object search screen - lengthen space for object names

Currently, the length of a table name or similar object is limited to 18 characters. This is an outdated standard since Db2 can accept much longer names. The pain point is that it's difficult to view or search for tables and impossible to copy/pas...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Watson Classifier - ability to make mandatory

To be able to optionally enforce use of the classifier and prevent manual classification e.g. make the classification fields read-only
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Watson Classifier button always visible

Keep the classifier button always visible to allow reclassification without changing the event description
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Checkboxes next to grid items should not appear if user does not have associate permission

In 8.2.0.0, when you have an association grid view on a task view (e.g. Associated Processes grid on an Entity Task view), users would need an Associate action button in order to associate or disassociate objects. In 8.2.0.3, rather than using the...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Incorporate Trace suspend option into Quiesce command

We want to remove the suspending of the incoming connections via db2trc command and make "quiesce command with force connections" do the same thing as db2trc is doing currently.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Expanding Messages DSNB355I and DSNB356I

MSG DSNB355I / DSNB356I did not give information for the affected object and page. So any reaction and reason search on these Messages is not possible. Please expand the message information for the object information with DBID.PSID.#partno.#pageno.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for Hypervisor Nutanix AHV

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) is quite widely used and some customers running DataStage on win would like to deploy it on AHV (currently 5.2.0). Other IBM products (eg. BAW are certified on Nutanix AHV) and it should be important to have it t...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

File based monitors

Client requirement is to make file limit checking. We can go with transaction limit, making number of days 0. It works, but it is impossible to make this monitor overrideable (tried changing risk error code with no effect). Also, next to suspendab...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to aggregate email notifications (reduce email notification volumes for end users)

To accompany the compliance theme and obligation evaluation assessment process, we have set up email notifications for the relevant assignees and subscribers based on the workflow steps. At present an email is triggered for each obligation evaluat...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration